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I'd like to add an acronym to the Urban Dictionary. And at 51, I hope not being a teenage girl will not disqualify me from inventing a new abbreviation. The acronym is LIL (in caps, so as not to be confused with "lil," a salutation for a rapper). LIL stands for LinkedIn Liar. Do you know what this means? It's someone who provides misleading or untruthful statements on his or her LinkedIn profile. This occurs mostly when people leave their headline unchanged after they're no longer at their last job. Or when they have everyone believe they are employed at a certain company when in reality they departed months or sometimes years ago. LinkedIn and other professional career sites provide us with a free platform to showcase our backgrounds for the benefit of organizations, recruiters and professionals interested in our accomplishments or skills.

Brazen Careerist It's no surprise that as technology advances, we're spending more time online -- and less time socializing offline . Even when we are offline, we often have our eyes on a smartphone. Guess what's finally catching up with our online lifestyle? Networking. ( Click here to tweet this thought.) We still have the nametags and handshakes in crowded conference rooms and bars, but online events are becoming increasingly popular, making it easier for companies, universities and organizations to bring their members together regardless of geographical distance.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Professional social networking website LinkedIn Corp launched a Chinese language version of its website on Monday, a move that could jumpstart its expansion into the world's largest Internet market by users even as the company acknowledged it will have to police what some of them say on its website. LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff Weiner acknowledged in a blog post on Monday that the company would have to censor some of the content that users post on its website in order to comply with Chinese rules.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Professional social networking website LinkedIn Corp launched a Chinese language version of its website on Monday, a move that could jumpstart its expansion into the world's largest Internet market by users even as the company acknowledged it will have to police what some of them say on its website. LinkedIn already has more than 4 million users in China who use its English language website, but the company has previously said that it was interested in making a broader expansion into China.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp posted a better than expected 47 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenue but projected 2014 revenue that was below Wall Street targets. Shares of LinkedIn fell 11 percent to $199 in after-hours trading on Thursday. The company projected that full year revenue for 2014 will range between $2.02 billion and $2.05 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S were looking for 2014 revenue of $2.16 billion.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - More U.S. adults use LinkedIn and Pinterest than Twitter, but that website attracts a greater proportion of blacks and young adults than do its social media peers, a Pew Research Center study released on Monday showed. Photo pin-up site Pinterest spiked in popularity over the past year, according to the survey, a poll of 1,445 Internet users aged 18 and older. About 21 percent of respondents said they employ the service, up sharply from 15 percent in a similar survey conducted a year ago. The figure was 22 percent for LinkedIn and 18 percent for Twitter, holding roughly steady from a year ago. About 29 percent of the blacks surveyed by Pew made use of Twitter, well above 16 percent for whites and Hispanics, the study showed.

Twitter's initial public offering last week was everything that Facebook's botched offering a year and a half ago was not: the stock was reasonably priced; management wooed investors; and the company neither promised the moon nor the stars, and was rewarded with a substantial amount of cash raised, a stock that went up more than 75 percent, and a valuation of $25 billion. Though shares pulled back sharply â and predictably â the day after its IPO, Twitter has now joined the pantheon of leading social media companies.

We've covered many basic tips here at So Social, such as the importance of adding a profile photo and the reasons to activate subscribers on Facebook. Those are easy and together take about 2 minutes to accomplish. Now let's move to advanced tips on several different platforms. But please note that I'm hesitant to call these advanced tips, because they are just as easy to accomplish. But starting them right now will put you ahead of the game, and who doesn't want to be ahead of the game when it comes to social media?